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I am a gamer, plain and simple. I've been one for most of my life and it doesnt show any signs of slowing. I enjoy following the cultures, trends, and up to date news going on within the multiverse known as "modern gaming". My first console was an Atari 2600, the first time I remember playing a game was Afterburner at Aladins Castle. I named my first and only son after a port city in a video game. It is my passion and my obsession rolled into one. I am Revolutionary and I am a gamer.

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Marketability of a personal opinion/philosophic viewpoint book
Revolutionary \| 12:06 PM on 01.03.2008	6 comments

For the past few weeks while at work I've been spending alot of my downtime writing out chapter structure and ideas for a book that I'm writing for a few friends of mine that discuss some of our common held beliefs on modern society. Now I've fleshed out and written the first and second chapters along with a prologue. I intend to have ten chapters when finished along with an epilogue. Now all of my writing that I've ever done has been for personal use (with the exception of a collection of poetry that I did for our newspaper) , but when I showed a few of my old teachers and a few colleagues that I had written they told me I should try to publish it. Now I've never made an attempt to publish anything in my life and it seems silly to me that people would actually want to purchase a book of this nature.

Anyway I figured I'd ask for the opinions of my fellow D'tards since our little community tends to be a fair bit more level headed then 98% of the intarweb.

Quick Synop of Chapters 1,2

Chapter 1: The Demon Diaries

-Deals mainly with child rearing in modern society. Broad view compiled with smaller base opinions formed around personal experiences.

Chapter 2: Circuit Bored

-Deals with widespread electronic ignorance(Elderly refusal to attempt to learn basic cpu use , etc). Focused view on segments of society.

PS: If anyone who reads this has ever been published and wouldn't mind posting a few primers on the steps involved I'd be really appreciative.

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5 comments | showing # 1 to 5

weedgan

Well getting a book published is probably a pain in the ass, considering It's a really old pratice.

Look, i don't know how to help.

Tragic Hero

Thats a tough demographic you are writing for. The only people who enjoy reading the types of books you are interested in writing are the professors and pseudo intellectuals (and the minute crowd that they are won't take you too seriously without some sort of psych or philosophy degree, unless its really revolutionary stuff) or those who like chicken soup for the soul and want it to be short and sweet with a ray of sunshine at the end.

Kudos and good luck to you if you get it off the ground. I thought of writing a book like yours but I just kept thinking "who is really going to want to read this?".

If I could give one more piece of advice (that is if you are willing to take it) I would change the book about a man dealing with your issues and feeling your beliefs. That way you can get the audience who likes stories and those who want something deeper.

galagabug

i think its a pretty awsome idea, and could easily be marketed to a variety of demographics. basically, feedback on the state of modern society from those of us that have to raise a family in it. this would be more marketable if you were world famous, but that titles been taken, its going to be a little tricky to sell the opinions of the fairly anonymous, but the idea sounds very original, and almost like a time capsule for a generation. persuing things never hurts.

blehman

This doesn't sound too bad. I'd read it. Maybe. If you need someone to proof for you, my ma was an English teacher, so I got pretty good at that kind of stuff.

Revolutionary

Thanks for the input guys. Very good points.

-Rev

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